True women & westward expansion

Caughfield, Adrienne 1971- (Author).

Summary: "Adrienne Caughfield mines the diaries and letters of ninety Texas women to uncover the ideas and enthusiasms they brought to the Western frontier. Although there were a few notable exceptions, most of the women drew on their domestic skills and values to establish not only "civilization" but also their own security. Caughfield sheds light on women's activism (the flip side of domesticity), attitudes toward and race and "civilization," the tie between a vision of a unified continent and a cultivated wilderness, and republican values. She offers a new understanding of not only gender roles in the West but also the impulse for expansionism itself."--Jacket

Record details

ISBN: 9781585444090
ISBN: 158544409X
ISBN: 9781299053991
ISBN: 1299053998
ISBN: 1603446036
ISBN: 9781603446037
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 178 pages)
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Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2005.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-174) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Domesticity and expansionism -- Cultivating the "Garden of the South-West" -- Women and Texas independence -- Fighting for the cause of civilization -- A feeling of destiny -- Slavery and expansion -- A magnificent empire -- Of politics and true womanhood.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Language Note:	English.
Action Note:	digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.